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Editor’s note: Another Viewpoint is a column The Morning Journal makes available so all sides of an issue may be aired. Joel Lieske is political science professor at Cleveland State University. He resides in Bay Village.

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Although, as a conservative, I find the description of the 1930s as an “exciting” time to be a bit odd, Bannon’s sneak preview should be somewhat reassuring to those liberals who see Trump as a stark repudiation of Barack Obama. When Obama came into office eight years ago, Time magazine depicted the new president as FDR with the headline “The New New Deal.”

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That race continues to be a major source of anxiety and division in America is an undeniable fact. While some politicians continue to use race to divide, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. is trying again to bridge the gap in his latest PBS documentary series “Black America Since MLK.”

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LIMA, Peru >> On the surface, President Barack Obama was cool-headed, cerebral and confident, doling out parting reassurances to world leaders on his final global jaunt. Behind the scenes, his aides and Democrats back at home were a deflated and weary bunch, grimly ending Obama’s tenure in a way they never imagined.

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The year was 1939 and the month was March, as in Beware of the Ides of. His arrival at the Navy Department in Washington, D.C., was unceremoniously announced by the desk officer, who informed Admiral S.C. Hooper, United States Navy, “There’s a wop outside.”